the white house condemning russia s arrest of wall street journal ist reporter evan gershkovich calling the targeting of american citizens unacceptable. was the long strong enough? we ll ask nikki haley live from new york on russia s latest act of bold aggression against the u.s. what should we do now? this espionage charge is ridiculous. the targeting of american citizens by russian government is unacceptable. important part of my life. i have flinn and a new puppy. as i was writing, i found that i just wasn t as sharp and i new i needed to do something so i started taking prevagen. i realized that i was much more clear and i was remembering the details that i was supposed to. prevagen keeps my brain working right. prevagen. at stores everywhere without a prescription.
language itself without vladimir putin, giving the go ahead. hard to know whether or not putin himself was directly involved, and we may never know that. but the language is worrisome. and did you notice that in the us references they never talked about the charges? they never mentioned as being nausea because they re trying to keep this from hardening into a an espionage charge of formal one, just as kim described for the reasons that came described, so instead, they re saying we just want consular access of referring to him as illegally detained, not arrested. they re not addressing the specifics of the charge, which, of course they journal calls ridiculous and i m sure that journals right on that. but the issue here is that you can t go about and conduct ordinary reporting about the status of the russian military or its military
there were a lot of combinations that were tried. but i m confident. i am positive. i think in the end the espionage charge, yes, is wrongfully detained, bogus. but i think there will be a positive outcome. and his family is the one that suffered the most and i really regret that. jason what are your thoughts on the reporting on paul whelan? are you optimistic he can come home some day soon? look, anderson, my heart breaks for the whelan family. i ve gotten to know elizabeth over the last couple years, spoken with her many times. i am optimistic that he will come home and that all americans who are wrongfully detained abroad will come home. unfortunately, it will require some kind of deal. you know, one thing we don t talk about a lot is there is not a real great deterrence policy to governments doing this so as americans, we should get on with the idea the u.s. government has to make some kind of concessions.
president joe biden s national security spokesperson saying she appears to be in good health. she was gracious and kind, very pressurappreciative of the to get her home. reporter: griner is undergoing a medical evaluation before being reunited with her wife and the rest of her family. a senior official saying negotiations to bring griner home were separate from any talks about ukraine. the deal came together about one week ago after the u.s. offered to swap viktor bout for both griner and whelan. whelan was sentenced to 16 years in prison, over an espionage charge he denies. it was either make this exchange, get one back, and the only one they were willing to trade was britney. reporter: the inner workings of the prisoner swap were discussed only among a tight group of u.s. officials,
griner and the so-called arms dealer. it was our u.s. secretary of state who was on face the natio over the weekend and he was talking about there were ongoin conversations with the russians about a prisoner swap and in particular brittney griner and the former she was convicted of smugly narcotics and whelen has been in russia since 2018 healt on a fictitious espionage charge . but with the secretary of state revealed was they were interested in a 1-1 swap, so if we only had one, if we only kno of one russian they are given up , that is the merchant of death, we only have the brittne griner name. we would have to get another name to hear more about. merchant of death it sounds